Disappointments Accumulate, Love Has Disappeared

"Kyle, listen to me carefully. I, Sophie, have no intention of ever having children because no man is worth the pain of carrying a child for ten months!"

Sophie said this to me during a company dinner.

As I left the gathering amidst the complex gazes of others, I returned home only to receive a package—Sophie's pregnancy report.

She was already a month along, and I had just returned from a business trip two months prior.